I am hankerin for a 308. I am a DPMS fan and was looking at the new 308 long range lite link I cant find it anywhere and a call to DPMS indicates an 11 month wait.

Anyone have any other suggestions? I was looking at the rock river offerings and they look good but, I don't know. Wait will probably be about the same anyways. Just looking for feedback from anyone who might own a heavy, long barrel 308. No packing this one up and down mountains. I want a straight up target and woodchuck whackin machine, coming in at $1500.00, or less.

I'd say build what you want. You could build a heck of a nice one for $1500. Check out 308AR.com for some tips. You can find good barrels and parts at Fulton Armory, Rainier, Midway, JSE surplus, and probably others I can't think of. JMO, also check out Gunbroker, sometimes you'll see the heavy DPMS 308's for under 1k.

Remember that ar-308's are not milspec like ar15's are. I didn't want to wait for the dpms lite hunter, so i went with the cmmg mkIII #38A20FB, i use mine for packing and bench type shooting and it works.

I have dropped yodies at 500+ yds with it using 155gr amaxs, and it weighs in at 8 3/4 pounds with scope so my arms aren't falling off after a day of packing it up and down hills. blue

Ok this might sound crazy and maybe a hard find depending on your lgs but...take a look at LMT MWS. I absolutely love mine and the great part is that you can change to 243, 6.5 creedmore, 7mm-08 and one more caliber that I cant remember right now. It will allow you more versatility and I use mine with the 243 barrel for coyote and am planning on taking it white tail hunting this year. It take the pmags and I cut a piece of blocker so that it wont run more than 5 rds in the regular pmag.

It might be worth taking a look at it depending on how much you find one for as well as how much you can flex your budget. I haven't regretted getting mine at all. I honestly sold both of my old 243 coyote rifles just because of how well the lmt was doing.